[moonman]

Every time this topic comes up, I can't help but remember seeing that fossil on TV of a crocodile which scientists claimed to be over 2 million years older than dinosaurs. The crocodile in the fossil looked EXACTLY like the ones today. "Jes how long does this evolution thingy take before sumpin changes?" LOL

[atlaw]

Turn off the tv. Read. It's much more informative.

[whattajoke]

The crocodile in the fossil looked EXACTLY like the ones today. "Jes how long does this evolution thingy take before sumpin changes?" LOL

Wow. Biology 101 (moonman vernacular): If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Crocs have been relatively unchanged because they've never needed to as a top predator in their stable niche. They've had no selective pressures on them to cause any change in their allele frequencies for quite some time, though they have gotten smaller over the Ages.

What dope would not explain this on TV?

[Stone Mountain]

Every time this topic comes up, I can't help but remember seeing that fossil on TV of a crocodile which scientists claimed to be over 2 million years older than dinosaurs. The crocodile in the fossil looked EXACTLY like the ones today. "Jes how long does this evolution thingy take before sumpin changes?" LOL

What is your specific problem with this? Is it that you don't believe that the fossil was that old? Or is it that you don't believe that natural selection could possibly keep a life form static for that long if other animals were evolving? Or is it something else?

[jayef]

Clearly you lack even a fundamental understanding of the mechanics of evolution.